People, places, and turning points
Church History
Follow the apostolic story into the first centuries and meet the witnesses whose writings illuminate the early church.
Complete collection
Meet the people and moments that shaped the early church.
Explore all seventeen studies of the people, places, writings, and turning points that shaped the earliest centuries of the church.
An Introduction to the Early Christians
Why these historical witnesses deserve thoughtful attention.
Timeline of Christian Leaders
Place the apostles, early writers, councils, and later movements in context.
Apostolic Succession
How teaching and leadership were carried into the generations after the apostles.
Who Were the Gnostics?
Understand the most persistent rivals faced by the early church.
Were the Early Christians Catholic?
A careful historical question without forcing modern categories backward.
Worship in the Early Church
A window into gathering, prayer, teaching, and communion.
Are You Teaching the Apostolic Faith?
A test of whether modern teaching reflects the faith received from the apostles.
Grace: How a Simple Word Became a Superword
How the meaning of grace developed across Christian history.
Jesus, the Early Church, and You
Connecting the teachings of Jesus, their earliest witnesses, and Christian life today.
Mary: An Early Christian Perspective
What the earliest Christian sources say—and do not say—about Mary.
Memoirs of the Apostles
How the Gospels were received, read, and remembered in the early church.
People of the Early Church
Meet influential Christians, leaders, writers, and witnesses of the first centuries.
Peter, Rome, and the Papacy
Examining the historical claims connecting Peter, Rome, and later papal authority.
Places of the Early Church
Explore the cities and regions where early Christian communities took root.
Sign Gifts in the Early Church
Historical testimony about healing, prophecy, tongues, and other spiritual gifts.
The Leadership Structure of the Early Church
Bishops, elders, deacons, and the development of church order.
They Endured to the End
Accounts of believers whose faithfulness endured suffering and death.
Church history is not a substitute for Scripture. It is the record of how people understood, obeyed, debated, and sometimes departed from it.